A Computational Model of Natural Language Communication

This book evolved in the context of the laboratory of Computational Linguistics of the University Erlangen–Nürnberg (CLUE). I am grateful to the members of my team (in alphabetical order), Matthias Bethke, Johannes Handl, Besim Kabashi, and Jörg Kapfer, who discussed the technical and conceptual issues of the theory and the implementation at great length and in great depth and contributed many ideas. I am also grateful to my students, especially Arkadius Kycia, who programmed the first TM implementation of DBS.1 and DBS.2 in the speaker, the think, and the hearer mode. I would like to thank Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) and Haitao Liu (Communications University of China, Bejing) for providing detailed comments on an earlier stage of the manuscript. Mike Daly (Dallas) proofread the manuscript and made many valuable suggestions. I am indebted to Marie Huˇcinova (Charles University, Prague), Vladimir Petroff (Northeastern University, Boston), Kiyong Lee (Korea University, Seoul), and a team of copy editors at Springer for numerous improvements in the final phase of the manuscript. All remaining mistakes are mine. Java